[pigdog]

Plenty ... how do you think we got into this lousy tax system in the first place - and have remained in it for almost 100 years.

It's partly our fault, too, though ... and we need to correct that.

[xcamel]

Top 50% of Wage Earners Pay 96.03% of Income Taxes

There is new data for 2001. The share of total income taxes paid by the top 1% fell to 33.89% from 37.42% in 2000. This is mainly because their income share (not just wages) fell from 20.81% to 17.53%. However, their average tax rate actually rose slightly from 27.45% to 27.50%.